1. Aaron Conley got himself a sweet pinup in Mike Allred‘s soon to be released Madman 20th Anniversary Monster insanely-huge-coffee-table-sized-book and compendium-of-just-about-every-legendary-comic-artist-ever-book.
2. Damon Gentry is writing a ??? for ??? (can’t talk about it yet).
3. Aaron Conley did a ??? for ??? (information forthcoming).
4. Damon & Aaron ????? super ???? incredible ??? (oh it’s gonna be so good).

And here’s some stuff. Since my music co-conspirator David Roby is in town. (He’s been in Texas getting a graduate degree. I keep trying to tell him education is stupid.) We recorded some more of our original material that I just uploaded to YouTube. Here’s a couple of the better performances.

You can download a recorded version here.

Dance The Bridge – Let’s Get This Boat Show On The Road E.P. – 6 songs written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Damon Gentry & David Roby, with contributions from David Torres. Cover photo by Cory Gilbert.

1. Young Man’s Game
2. Gunshy
3. The Bles’sed Drink
4. Vacation Time Again
5. Super Happy
6. Avian Liberty

NEWSFLASH: Better late than never! Dance The Bridge – Ominous Frolic is now available on iTunes! Click the button!

Dance The Bridge - Ominous Frolic

If you have downloaded it freely from this website and enjoyed our efforts producing Ominous Frolic, please also feel free to rate or review the album on iTunes correlating to your levels of appreciating the music contained therein.

NEWSFLASH:  David Roby and I are working hard on a brand new Dance The Bridge 7 song EP for 2011, it’s very close to being fully recorded, so look for Let’s Get This Boat Show On The Road EP sometime in the next couple months! It is really sounding incredible, I can’t wait to get it out.

NEWSFLASH: I’m out of public newsflashes but good things come in threes so I’ll go ahead and reserve this slot. Oh yeah, no wait, here’s something fun. From the archives, I recorded this cover of an old folk song called 500 Miles (based on the painfully breathtaking The Journeymen‘s version) a few years back when I was trying to learn guitar and how to record, and it’s one of very few of my demo tracks from that era that still sounds pretty good to me. Enjoy.

Plenty more down-loadable mp3s located right here on the Dance The Bridge page.

For a divine time.

Here’s an original song I co-wrote with my friend David Torres. This is a sacri-licious hard-drinking shanty, and it’s about as screwball as it gets. Here is a loose demo. For the final version I’d like get some rolling barroom piano, accordion, and maybe a little fiddle action going on from miracle musician David Roby. Maybe speed up the tempo a notch. We’ll see.

Here are the lyrics because I think they are funny:

Another drink of whiskey boy, to calm yer jangled nerves
When God’s great hand comes crashing down, we’ll get what we deserve
A mighty cup, a mighty sup, His bladder made of stone
If you can’t handle yer liquor man, by God you’re on yer own

Drink away, My Lord, seize the day, My Lord, share thy shot-glass with me!

Drink deeply of communion boys, a drop of the blood of Our Savior
Is stiff enough to buckle the knees of even the heartiest sailor!

The wedding bells are tolling Lord, bestow Thy gifts upon
For if it be, we drink to Thee, bless Ye and the horse Ye rode in on
The heavens part, I cut a fart, to behold That Holy Light
And down through the crack comes a great big bottle of Jack
To judge man on wrongness and right

Drink away, My Lord, seize the day, My Lord, we’ll soon be seein’ Three
Drink away, My Lord, seize the day, My Lord, a Holy Trinity

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In this, our pioneer episode, we RAMBLE on about the multiple facets of what we’ve been up to.

Also, CONTAINS CUSSIN’! Just an FYI, NSFW.

INVADE MY PODCAST Episode #1 (45 minutes).

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Relevant Linkage: Rocko’s Modern Life – Phone Sex Operator on youtube.

A genre-spanning literate pop record grounded in folk/rock and personal idiocy. 11 tracks. 31 minutes of audible sound.

Download Ominous Frolic mp3's in a ZIP file (60mb)!

Dance The Bridge - Ominous Frolic Back Cover

Or if you prefer to sample individual tracks, then by all means…

1. The Black Plague
2. A Confidence Trickster
3. Know Me Now
4. Overture 1890
5. Feel The Same
6. Hard Up (In A Bad Way)
7. David Roby's Tasteful Intermezzo #1
8. Half Asleep
9. My 486
10. I Am An Evil Woman
11. The Chocolate War

ALSO AVAILABLE: DTB – Death Rears Its Fully Metal Head EP (2008)

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Early statements about the album are trickling in at a harrowing trickle, from confidantes and strangers alike:

Mr. Robert Johnson says, “It’s fucking awesome!  Great job!”

Matthew Gourley says, “Downloaded your album and liked it quite a damn lot!”

Jeffrey Crocker says, “It’s really really really incredible work. I am floored by the production value and the arrangements and just the whole shebang!”

Erik Price says, “My ladyfriend and I just spent a lazy Sunday morning eating brunch and listening to your new album. It was fantastic!”

Aliza Ehrlich & Cory Gilbert say, “This is awesome! We both enjoyed it a lot, an immediate addition to the iPhone library.”

Thanks guys!

Ok I’m back! So Christmas is right around the bend, and this year I’ve composed a song in the grand tradition of the bleakly humorous, hard luck carols of yore. David Roby played the guitar and slide guitar and I tinkled on the toy piano for this one. Enjoy!